Ran Lahav

Ran Lahav (; born April 17, 1954) is an Israeli-born American philosopher who developed philosophical activities for the general public. Since the early 1990s he has given workshops and retreats around the world, and published books and articles. Since the early 2010s he has been developing formats of philosophical contemplation, known as Deep Philosophy.

Education

Ran Lahav received his bachelor's degree in philosophy and psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1988 he completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Michigan with a doctoral thesis on the nature of subjective experience, as well as a master's degree in psychology. and in 1993 he initiated and co-organized the first international conference on philosophical counseling at the University of British Columbia, and edited the anthology Essays on philosophical counseling (1995), the first book in English in the field. In 2017 he founded the Deep Philosophy Group in which participants contemplate together from their inner depth on short philosophical texts.

Publications

Philosophy books

Essays on Philosophical Counseling, Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. (Edited anthology with second editor Maria Tillmanns). ISBN 978-0819199737 Stepping out of Plato’s Cave, Loyev Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0998133034 Philosophical Contemplation, Loyev Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1947515949 What is Deep Philosophy?, Loyev Books, 2021. ISBN 978-1947515093